"Is he a photographer? Graphic designer? A filmmaker of the ordinary and the extraordinary? A griot of the Vosges and elsewhere? Emmanuel Pierrot is a little and much more than all of that.
Emmanuel Pierrot received his first camera, a small Kodak 110, when he was 8, but it was as a teenager that he really started out, joining the photo department of the daily newspaper La Liberté de l'Est. However, he quickly abandoned the idea of reporting and went to feed his imagination with visual photography.
Patrick Tosani, Craigie Horsfield, Hannah Colins, Boyd Webb, William Laxton, Ralph Gibson, and Mark Arbeit would influence his future choices. In New York, he met James Wojicik, with whom he perfected his mastery of the studio, construction, lighting, and the view camera.
He set up his first studio on the aptly named Rue Daguerre and, alongside his personal work, began fruitful collaborations with numerous French and international press titles, publishing houses and European theatres.
"Is he a photographer? Graphic designer? A filmmaker of the ordinary and the extraordinary? A griot of the Vosges and elsewhere? Emmanuel Pierrot is a little and much more than all that. From his farm in the Vosges to his studio in the suburbs of Paris and the peaks of Kyrgyzstan, the world is his cabinet of curiosities, his living encyclopedia."
Jacky Durand, Liberation
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